Blasting rock during the construction of highway through Glenwood Canyon. The Colorado River is at the right; there is snow on the hills in the background. Large rocks in foreground with debris from the blast rising in the air in center midground. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

Construction of the Hanging Lake rest area in Glenwood Canyon, part of the I-70 construction project. This photo was taken on June 27, 1994. The project completed Interstate 70's final, 12.5-mile gap in the transcontinental highway reaching from Baltimore, Maryland, to Interstate 15 south of Salt Lake City. "Lawsuits, environmental impact studies, and design changes took nearly two decades to resolve before the first shovelful of earth was turned...